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  • TOBACCONIST
    Any person, firm, or corporation whose business it is to manufacture cigars, snuff, or tobacco in any form. Act of congress of July 13, 1866, | 9; 14 St at Large, 120.
  • TOFT
    A place or piece of ground on which a house formerly stood, which has been destroyed by accident or decay. 2 Broom & H. Comm. 17.
  • TOFTMAN
    In old English law. The owner of a toft Cowell; Spelman.
  • TOGATI
    Lat In Roman law. Advocates; so called under the empire because they were required, when appearing in court to plead a cause, to wear the toga, which had then ceased to be the customary dress in Rome. Vicat
  • TOKEN
    A sign or mark; a material evl-dince of the existence of a fact Thus, cheating by "false tokens'" implies the use of fabricated or deceitfully contrived material objects to assist the person's own fraud and falsehood in accomplishing the cheat Bee State v. Green, 18 N. J. Law, 181; State More...
  • TOLERATION
    The allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state which are contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief. Webster. -Toleration act. The statute 1 W. & M. St. 1, c. 18, for exempting Protestant dissenters from the penalties of certain laws is More...
  • TOLL
    v. To bar, defeat or take away; thus, to toll the entry means to deny or take away the right of entry.
  • TOLL
    n. In English law. Toll means an excise of goods; a seizure of some part for permission of the rest It has two significations: A liberty to buy and sell within the precincts of the manor, which seems to import as much as a fair or market; a tribute or More...
  • TOLLAGE
    Payment of toll; money Charged or paid as toll; the liberty or franchise of charging toll.
  • TOLLBOOTH
    A prison; a customhouse; an exchange; also the place where goods are weighed. Wharton.
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